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Isabel Lewis (born 1981 in the Dominican Republic, based in Berlin) is an artist and choreographer trained in dance and choreography, literary criticism, and philosophy. Her work takes on many different formats, ranging from lecture performances and workshops to listening sessions, publications, and what she has termed “hosted occasions.” She has created projects around open-source technology and dance improvisation, social dances as cultural storage systems, collaborative choreographic formats, future bodily techniques and ecological thinking, and rapping as an embodied speech act.
Her works have been presented in the contexts of contemporary art, music, dance, and theatre by institutions such as the Archiv der Avantgarden (Dresden, 2024), Sophiensaele (Berlin, 2023), Biennale Son (Switzerland, 2023), Dance First Think Later (Switzerland, 2022), Ocean Space (Venice, 2021), Kunsthalle Zürich (2020), Sharjah Biennial (United Arab Emirates, 2019), Roskilde Festival (Denmark, 2019), Berliner Festspiele-Gropius Bau (2018), Tate Modern (London, 2017), Steirischer Herbst (Graz, 2017), Dia Foundation (New York, 2016), Ming Contemporary Art Museum Shanghai (2016), and Tanz Im August (Berlin, 2015), among others.
Lewis has been a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig (HGB), where she led the Class for Performative Arts from 2021 to 2025. She is currently the artistic co-director of Tanzquartier Wien, alongside Rio Rutzinger.
2025
